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The better and fuller the notes, the clearer and fuller the picture you getWhen the last of the autumn skies shine blue the way they did this year, it takes me right back to Coronary Care. 20th of May I got wheeled in there. I spent the first night looking out the window at the lights of Whangarei and in particular the traffic -
Get a load of what these people are thinking they can doWhat was it they kept saying last election, in between dog whistles about the Mahhrees? It was: people of New Zealand, your voice is being taken off ya, your say is being taken off ya, your democratic rights are being taken off ya. Say yeah nah to Three Waters. It -
Here is what we could be doing insteadIn the last post about Prime Minister and the Greatest Generation, I promised better options. Here they are. The reason the government wants to punt a couple of billion on an LNG project is that as good as our hydro lake system is, it isn’t enough. When lakes run -
What the Greatest Generation actually didThe name Christopher Luxon is not one that comes to mind when we speak of oratory, or inspiring words, or even the ability to talk in whole sentences. He’s a jargon-gargler, a happy burbler of Americanisms, a visitor from far, far away. Yet somehow he remains installed as -
The scale of the sharing must match the scale of the takingYou hear it all over the place now. Over coffee, over drinks, over and over, from Tories, from friends who are full-noise commie, from people with no interest in politics whatsoever. What’s AI going to do to everything? What’s there going to be for our kids? The